Kidnapping feeling is growing in the country over the governments apparent failure to protect the children and to secure their release. Last will meet the people counting mangroves and trees and citadel the country is on the brink of losing heart its arable land. And im kristie one to its good to have your company nigerias boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolboys in the north of the country the islamist extremist groups. And audio message to a local newspaper saying the students were kidnapped because western education is against the tenets of islam more than 330 boys from a government secretary school in the northwest state of katsina a missing although as you say bandits all responsible and that theyre negotiating the release of the boys with the attackers well hear from nigerias former Education Minister and the leader of the bring back all Girls Campaign off to this report. Waiting for news of her child her son one of the boys snatched from a school on friday. If this government is just then we want them to rescue our children because they have the power to do sorry this slow to take action because its not their children who have been taken theyve put us in a situation where parents and grandparents are in absolute confusion theyve stopped us from having peace of mind were totally devastated. By. The missing pupils were boarders at this school in kids who know they were taken in a violent attack by dozens of gunmen with assault rifles while they were asleep in their dormitories osama is one of the lucky ones he managed to escape the kidnappers. Will be up by i was about to slape when i started hearing sporadic gunshots and before i could even get outside there were many people there were already outside and so we were asked to go back into a hostel then they said the gunmen are already in the school we even climbed the school fence but then these men asked us to go back and we thought these men were soldiers and they were trying to protect us but unfortunately they werent soldiers. As he was he with. Many details of the raid in the school and its aftermath a still unclear. It at school and other than as i said and is one of the boys that has been abducted we heard the Security Forces saw our boy surrounded by the gunmen on top of a hill we want the government to help Security Forces rescue our children we just want to see our boys in whatever condition so that we can have peace of mind. At the stage its to lunch how long parents will have to light. As we heard Jihadist Terrorist Group boko haram came to its kidnap the boys i aussies have a correspondent for in lagos how unlikely that was given the authorities in katsina say the local bandits were responsible and that they now appeared to be negotiating with those bandits well it depends on who you ask the book arm has come out i released. An audio saying claiming that they actually did the kidnapping however we spoke to a d. W. Correspondent who is on the ground who actually said that local people they do not believe that these kidnap was was done by rob they believe it was he was done by bandits in the local area the reason being that this band they claim hopping operating in the area for over 10 years and theyve tried to attack this school about 3 times what ive failed on those 3 times and even before i. Came out. Before he came out and said unto christ possibility for the kidnap weve got its mail 2 ready asking for ransom which is something far im never had those they dont ask for ransom so this is why a lot of people out really saying that book our army is only claiming on take us for stability for this just to seek for Global Recognition or just to you know see you know i would see people dont go out dont believe that he was gone by people are for us to quote what they have nigerias former Education Minister is if we sit in the campaign to free the chip buckles who kidnapped by boko haram in 2014 i asked her if she thought was responsible for the f. Duction of the schoolboys i dont expect i dont speculate so what i know is what. The government says that the. Now that School Children have been abducted by terror suspects all we know and so as once were concerned the most important thing is to ask the government that should have prevented it repeat of this kind of tragedy to just gets the job went back the United States and saudi to have to retreat and recover just one citizen that was that can host the right therapies wish youd be able to look for the out necessary to bring back 300 at that to treat School Children this repeat is a problem in people. And should not be something that the government should get associated with a pole and just to that point nigerians are frustrated we can see it on social media we see it in the reactions and the question is the president mohammed to bari came to fall in 20151 of the commitments he made to nigerians was that he was going to defeat boko haram terrorists as as yet as he is calling it why has the government failed in this aspect what do you attribute that fadia to. Its a combination of both funds we know the competency and the you know i think the spread of it is the indifference of 5 government especially our president to the fact that the country has good degenerate. Im going its its normalized base idea thats life its chip amounts to several theres no dignity of the human life as we see it over and over again in the people slaughtered and it is not it is not dump them that you want your Younger Generation to grow up with unfortunately we have to call it what it is it is oppression dont case of poor governance of my country and our ruling class has to own up to the fact that if theres any banditry going on at all it is the. Particle are well equipped last that we have as nigerians have not set. The government saves its doing everything that its can in fact as we speak its coming into the headlines that that that the governor is in talks with these authorities in concedes that are in talks with the kidnappers just going back to. I think a lot of analysts to make the concession that this is a group that has lost significant amounts of territory theyre not as as as as violent as as they have been in the past so in many ways the government has made some ground at least by its version of accounts just should we also not take that into account well you know i dont think that if. Anyone were given that mark is stop this country i do not west of this country if one has been losing family members as we have seen in this country that you of these nations are not reporting the use of nigeria it lots of lives lost so please be careful in the way you put in irish and whats going on there. But its not be uncovered full stop. All right that is full minute minister and the campaign gets to the free. Talking to as. Its now to cynical way one of the walls largest Reforestation Projects is underway with the help of locals the countrys former environment minister. Has already planted get this 125000000000 mad since they began doing so in 2009 now the goal is to read green not just cynical but the whole so how. Senegal needs more trees. Who heads a large scale reforestation project is busy getting them planted Scientists Say the major reforestation senegal will lose half its arab and within the next 5 years here on the coast of the region farmland has become unusable nation. That once protected the shoreline were cut down for firewood and Building Materials could be the farmers were. Into their rice or fields which were no longer producing rice so it was difficult for them. A rich ecosystem they hold back floodwaters to turn to act as a natural salt barrier they also store up to 5 times as much Carbon Dioxide as other trees once it became clear just how beneficial the mangroves are to farmers things began to change. They were concerned about their rice fields and they became heavily involved in planting mangroves because of their rice fields. D. M. Was one of them for 4 years villagers in pac noble have been working to save their parties the initiative is organized and financed by the ngo oceania hider its former president started the project. Our rice fields no longer produce good harvests because salt water is invading them more and more we now know the reason its because the mangroves have disappeared we need to replant them locally oceania provides us with mongrels buds further north in the extremely arid my time region close to the Sahara Desert came up with a more unconventional method during the wet season nomads herds graze here the animals have been recruited to help plant a forest it will be part of the great greenwald that anxious to curtail dessert if they cation of the sun hell region. The herd is fed the fruits of the person its a fast growing tree that needs a little water the animals spread the seeds in their dong. Young men from the village of also help that use slings to scatter seeds of the african mahogany the intention is to introduce more diversity. With that of the animals it was necessary to think of an alternative way to disseminate the seeds dont wait for things to solve themselves amount of action where the mangroves are especially dear to lifelong ecologist hider el al is hard due to his after its over 150000000 bugs have already been planted and in a few years time rice paddies should be sold free. Thats it for now be sure to check out all of the stories on d. D. P. Dot com forward slash africa from reforestation in cynical to fashion today well leave you with pictures of the models who grace the runway at the deck off fashion week well see you next time ill try. To. Call you calling me oh and im game did you know that the 17th through the end of the moves on to world wide issue so that we can you know but its not just you know most of the suffering its the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the question if you want to know how one cliff to the priest and the whole troops train still doesnt mean for you to listen to our podcast on the green. What a year it has been for beirut with a devastating explosion in august and the coronavirus pandemic to complicate any efforts to restore its heritage well talk about those efforts in just a moment and also coming up. A new exhibition at londons victoria and Albert Museum is. All about bags their function design and symbolism through the ages. And the independent artists collective female photographers is trying to gender the way we look at human bodies. Welcome to arts and culture after the shock of the explosion last august in the lebanese capital beirut reconstruction efforts are halting at best thousands of buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed including many from the era of ottoman rule and the french mandate colonial period and with the added strain off the pandemic residents are struggling many fear the cultural soul of their city once known as the paris of the middle east may never truly recover. Following the explosion in beirut in many of the citys Historic Buildings still in ruins. Just mean michael is an engineer working. The citys Cultural Heritage the banners hanging from badly damaged buildings messages of hope. To raise again. You know heres a key to connect to 2 to 2 hope so to. The extent of the devastation around the ports is overwhelming heads a volunteer crisis group which assesses the damage collects donations and coordinates reconstruction efforts 8000. 00 buildings in the area are in need of restoration from here. Heated. In a very strong way we have more than 100. 00 unit in very critical situation and its a race against time when the seas no rains come the foundations of the buildings could be damaged beyond repair lebanon has been mired in deep economic and financial crisis the banks have imposed restrictions on how much people can withdraw from their accounts the aristocratic family suffered a terrible blow their historic palace also a Cultural Museum devastated the head of the family died of injuries received in the blast are left with a daunting task. You dont have the financial means to be stored its entire house its going to take millions and tens of millions and we dont have those funds. Are not going to these days the only ray of hope is the solidarity among the people here volunteers to help and weve really seen the worst of the worst of what we have in lebanon which is anything. Corrupt political political system and a nongovernment and weve got great lebanese that are volunteering to come and save the house so we have to thank you thank you very much. Beiruts Cultural Heritage is saved it will be thanks to grass roots efforts. A very difficult situation there in beirut in lebanon and joining me is my colleague Melissa Holroyd melissa give us a bit more of a visual idea of the of the real extent of the destruction on the ground well this was a massive massive blast the 2. 00 price on the 4th of august some 300000. 00 people were displaced half the city was affixes thousands and thousands of buildings were damaged which is looking at the images now. They are its just theyre just awful 640. 00 Historic Buildings were also damaged. And many of those were built on daughter and rule or during the french mandate colonial period. So that you know the damage across the sea was just immense so whats whats being done to save that i know this just looks almost where do you begin and what are the Major Concerns obviously in the in the immediate yes in the winter well in the piece where they talked a lot about the weather theyre concerned a lot about about the rainy and about the rainy season coming but theres also another concern and that will and thats to do with developers coming in and buying up the damaged buildings people are very afraid people are concerns that people that they will use this damage as an excuse to demolish the buildings and then you know put up skyscrapers and this is not new this has been happening for decades across space routes where developers have come in and you know demolished these Historic Buildings and then put up whatever they want. So it sounds like its an incredibly complicated situation on the ground and that really much of the work is being left to volunteers as we as we saw in the film because theres just this huge mistrust towards the government yet theres lebanon is facing multiple crises at the moment theres the economic crisis theres a political crisis they also suffered a lot of the under the might with the migration crisis as well they were hit very hard by and now and now the blast and sort of what theyre going to do about that is you know is another problem there are demonstrations often across beirut. Yeah. I think you were you told me before you had some photos that you could show us about actually some of the building that was a babe ruth photographer his name Joseph Joseph who re and he together with gabrielle at cardozo they went around they took photos they documented for years the Historic Buildings across beirut and shortly after the blast what they did they went back to these buildings and they held up these photos that theyd taken these postcard type photos that theyd taken against the damaged buildings and theyre lovely photos that beautiful photos they are part of a project called the boy out boy out of beirut projects and you get a really nice idea of what the buildings looks like very moving stuff beirut certainly has been rebuilt before and we wish all or all the best to the people of beirut for their for trying to in their efforts to preserve their Cultural Heritage thanks very much Melissa Holroyd for joining me. Well its certainly tough times also for exhibitions these days unlike many others londons victoria and albert is temporarily closed as the u. K. Applies tougher restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus all the more gratifying them that we can let its latest exhibition out of the bag so to speak because it is all about bags from rucksacks to berthas to birkin bags and how design function and style have made them the ultimate accessory banks that carry around a whole lot of history around 300. 00 exhibits ranging from british Prime Minister Winston Churchills dispatch box to hand back from the private collections of models alexa chung and. Franks found at the Victorian Museum preachers on loan from some of the worlds top designers and fresh including friendly prada and carmen. To be honest we all in this together its been affected by that me and ive been really amazing about giving us permission continue displaying their object. Was crushed by Sarah Jessica parker in her role as Carrie Bradshaw in the t. V. Series sex and the city in the late 1990 s. Its actually quite funny the story. Gets robbed all the shoes and all of a bag she. Tells the market he corrects in which he says. She corrects him and she says this is not the bag this is that i get and this is like the moment where its really symbolizes that moment in the history of the handbags with the back phenomena. And the ninetys beginning of 2000. Its not just designers whove given free range to the back imaginations are just like do you mean. So howd it go he created the entomology bank for prada i really hope the people take away. That when they think about the work. That man. And across the world the show goes back in time the oldest exhibit is from roughly 500 years ago if you want to get ahead forget the hands. Well how do female photographers see the world and do they have enough say in how women are portrayed female photographers dot org is an independent collective that addresses these questions founded back in 2018 to increase the visibility of female photographers the groups 1st publication starts a visual conversation about bodies that it hopes will shake up the narrative a bit. Women who connect. Networks women who support one another thats the liked motif of. And she choreographs this photo shoot. The idea behind the independent collective female photographers dot. The theme the collective. How we perceive document. Fascinated by connections and encounters the body is our release we use it every day and a lot. Of it this arrangement aims to show how we react to one another you can see they touch each other but its not sexualized. Reflecting do. Moods. That can who Study University of the arts believes its only through active exchange that something new and of value is created she shows this in her own work at times missed the core at times disturbing or at least. Simply. As in a fairy tale its a spectrum that one subject the german actress has fully embraced. Isnt primarily interested in puti she finds different kinds of beauty everywhere. Lets get on and its really about freeing the body of its constraint about another gaze one thats more neutral more artistic and more free. After her studies at the front crank university. Was art director at a Large Advertising Agency but today she prefers to stick clear of the mainstream together with her female network she tries to ask questions they can answer with images. To dissolve the conventional perspective that you flip through the pages and see something fresh people have the courage to string pictures together that show humor and. Also for. Who is surrendering to in front of the camera. End and then you perception became a feminine way of seeing. Tries to answer these questions with breaking the usual pattons exposing the many putative pictures that are worth taking the time to see. And dont forget about our website that. Its time for us to sign off so until next time stay safe and all the best from us in berlin just. Because. You see a dog mans head and not. The delicate like ensure good cardio is not what the consequences. Its much merrier in labor comes in with 4 goals against hoffenheim the rhineland dont shoot their way to the top of the table kickoff. 90 minutes on t. W. Play. A match. For inside africa monarch. Loads fantasy. Up. This. Translate into a. Secret success starts december 25th. Up. In the far north. d beyond the inhabitable world. Its lonely. Barren. And breathtakingly beautiful. The arctic. To take a journey around the north meet profiteers and talk with people experiencing a changing environment. For the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating our future depends on what happens here one of the most fragile ecosystems on the. Northern lights in the Arctic Circle starts december 21st. This is the one from germany just hours away from its 2nd hopes the fuck scene is imminent the countrys Health Minister calls on european regulators to make a decision. Pfizer facts before christmas on the european med some sage and Decision Making meeting to the 21st of december also on the program also be sterilized and tortured for not speaking the law which an exclusive report reveals the repression off weak us into other muslim minorities inside chinas reeducation camps. Times hes taking no chances before hes big not even santa coronavirus protocols as he welcomes visitors to the north pole. Im still going to welcome to the program. Germany is just hours away from its latest hard lockdown as coronavirus cases here continue to surge schools and nonessential businesses will close from wednesday leaving shoppers scrambling to buy last minute Christmas Gifts but there is good news for anyone whose biggest holiday wish is a covert vaccine the European Medicines Agency has brought forward a meeting at which its expected to approve the shot developed by biotech and pfizer. Theres always a surge of people at christmas time hunting for last minute gifts and this year it has come earlier than usual in germany on wednesday the stores will close as the country enters a tough lock down but even if not everyone finds what theyre looking for a welcome Christmas Present may be coming to people here soon germans are waiting for the 1st corona virus vaccines to be approved the problem is so far not even the Health Minister knows when that will happen. National authorities are supporting the european authorities to the best of their ability the goal is to secure approval before christmas. Germans and watched back scenes rolled out in the u. K. In the u. S. But the decision here is to wait until a drug is approved by the European Medicines Agency that approval was originally not g. Before the end of the year now the signs are it will come next week. So. It gets approved by the 23rd of december then together with the producer we will try and allow for a rapid delivery to the federal states and the federal states can then deliver it to their Vaccination Centers im expecting vaccinations to start 2. 00 to 4. 00 days afterwards at the latest. Start. Mass Immunization Centers are currently being equipped millions of doses of vaccine are on order those with heightened risk of infection will be invited 1st the elderly as well as Health Care Work it but the question of priority is controversial. Many people wanted as quickly as possible but that isnt enough at least in the beginning so thats why we need clear and transparent priorities the vaccine is being kept under key and lock and its very highly protected the vaccine is coming to germany but unlike with father christmas himself nobody can yet be sure when to expect. More from d. W. Political correspondent hans browne to welcome hans so the European Medicines Agency originally was due to meet on the 29th we had the german Health Minister there asking for the 23rd and its actually the 21st how much is that date change due to german pressure. We can say for sure about that are seem to have been quite a big amount of german pressure involved in the background here this whole all of this happened literally while the german Health Minister to today was speaking to the public or speaking to the press a number of media reports started appearing that so the day it was to be changed the Health Minister said he wasnt quite sure about those have no independent information for those and then while the press conference was going on today it was in fact confirmed and later even moved forward by 2 by 2 extra days as you say so there seems to have been german pressure involved certainly but its in fact the whole of the European Union all 27 or 26 other countries who are waiting for this decision with bated breath so why has it taken the europeans a so long to get to this point britain and the United States have already begun actually vaccinating people. Because both britain and the United States chose to do this on their own and to have a emergency approval of the vaccine in other words a speeded up process that that was something that germany decided not to do in fact every other european country could have done that but the other European Countries decided that they were going to follow the normal procedure to do this together for 2 reasons the one reason the german Health Minister fit in for size today was to get as much approval in the public for this vaccine as possible as a result of a normal process of approval of the vaccine so that as many people as possible could be persuaded actually to be vaccinated thats clearly very important the other reason is that no country in on the european continent wanted to go to learn i think partly because of what happened early in the pandemic when locked on this happened to a country by country each country imposed its own rules and there was chaos within the European Union this kind of chaos where wants to avoid no one wants to move Forward Together and to overcome this pandemic as a European Union in union you know the delay at least gives German Authorities time to be ready to start vaccinating as soon as the may gives the green light how all those preparations coming along theyve basically completed the Vaccination Centers all over germany these are large Large Centers in the soccer stadium or in. Holes on fair grounds and sort of trade for grounds that sort of thing hundreds and thousands of people are going to be vaccinated very quickly test runs have been done and as the minister said everythings ready as soon as the vaccine arrives the vaccination itself can start. Talking to you thank you w politics correspondent. Ok lets take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world start in france where thousands of people working in the theatre and settle in the streets have protested against the governments decision to extend the closure of Cultural Values because of covered 96 Week National locked i was here last today but museums theaters concert venues and cinemas will remain closed for 3 more weeks. British and European Union negotiators are making some progress in negotiations over breakfast according to sources close to the talks germanys e. U. Ambassador said a trade deal could be possible by the end of the week and he goes asians previously appear to have stalled with a deal increasingly unlikely the u. K. Transition period ends on the 31st of december. U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has congratulated joe biden on his election win in a speech on the senate floor the republican leader and the weeks of silence over president trumps defeat came a day after the Electoral College officially confirmed by mr victory. I mean you and azerbaijan have begun exchanging prisoners of war following a bloody conflict on the territory of nagornokarabakh into former soviet nations 4 to 6 weeks before russia brokered a cease fire last month its not clear how many prisoners are to be exchanged. Gimmes president alpha com barry has been sworn in for a 3rd term the 82 year old won violently disputed elections in october a conde become the countrys became the countrys 1st democratically elected leader in 2010 but critics accuse him of cracking down on dissent and undermining the constitution. Critics are describing it as a 21st century genocide this is chinas imprisonment and supposedly education of more than a 1000000 we goes and of a Muslim Minority is incomes in the ginger region excel the weak us have been dealt a blow by the International Criminal court which has rejected calls to investigate beijing for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity because china is not party to the tribunals china says the camps exist to steer people away from islamist extremism but muslim minorities say beijings trying to delete every trace of their identities we have this exclusive report. Scenes of a family outing 0 ad hom her husband john and their little daughter by are in turkey a safe location for now. But for good 0 a normal life is still far away she says she does not feel safe anywhere. Dumb on the record i still wake up from nightmares in which i see myself in a chinese internment camp again. The images and memories of the interrogations of the beatings and the things they did to him and their haunt me and then shell see chris few days and i cant sleep i argue with my family i even think about hurting myself. In 2017 go 0 hour han was arrested in sin john chinas western most region she is an ethnic azar born in china and was living in kazakhstan at the time on a trip back to china she was detained by police and then hope for a year in several reeducation camps. Although they tortured us they had cameras everywhere you were not allowed to pass scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chair they would make you sit there for 12 hours 24 hours you were tied to the chair and if you tried to move it would get tighter then they make you repeat chinese words that you didnt know if you forgot them they used electroshock device on your head. Back in kazakhstan her family did not know where she was at the same time authorities in china suddenly started to detain large numbers of the regions muslim minorities i traveled to the region to see for myself middle School Number 4 of which are counted was one of the camps she had been to in 2018 a high wall was built around the school and shacks were built in the courtyard today the school is back to what it was china has defended the facilities as location a Training Centers and declared that by 2019 all trainees had graduated but 0 has also told us that many of our former inmates would later transferred to regular prison on the outskirts of 2 more facilities. There are now 5 policemen following. A prison with watchtowers and another camp where both built in 2017 when the campaign against ethnic minorities took off all staff that. The one town if you film here we will have to take measures against you in this place is a state secret rooms and. We 0 was told she was detained because she had been to cause a stand that was seen as a sign of being disloyal to china more and more service now calling what is happening in the region could genocide after reports of forced birth controls the releasing. In the camp was your area because the inmates were administered injections of an unknown substance. From local county after the injection some women stopped having their periods those who still had it were given one pad they had to use it for 2 or 3 days if their period would come it would come if not not we stopped being ashamed about it at some point we didnt stop thinking of home most of us had stopped crying by then. 0 is one of the lucky ones she was finally allowed to leave after her husband had complained for and. She has no news from her relatives in the region. Now or to a holiday tradition the visit to santa boys and tell him that christmas wishes children set on his like so many other things this year to change because of a coronavirus pandemic luckily for anyone making the trip to satisfy. The Arctic Circle the big man in red has everything under control. Its unusually quiet and sanchez village at this time of the year the little town in the Arctic Circle is usually bustling with people but not a magical enclave is exempt from the pandemics global consequences. Times of uncertainty for old and young the st nick has a reassuring message we all have to be very good and nice and we have to follow all Public Health recommendations and social. We all get front new ways to be our friends and relatives. And santa leads by example creating those who have made the trip to his village through plexiglas sporting masks and pacifiers traditions or reinvented here in the Arctic Circle after all staying in good graces with santa takes commitment. You have been trying to get off the list for years. For those unable to come see father christmas personally the elves at the post office are working overtime to make sure all wishes are granted and as rudolph and his herd started warming up for their big trip around the globe santa has one last word of advice. To each other christmas is coming. Ive been told. Gulf will have a full view of the top of the hour ben fizzled in hostility dont need is this update in just a moment of the day. Why are people forced to hide in trucks. There are many reasons. There are many answers. And there are many stories. To. Make up your own. Made for mines. The e. U. Says the time has come through a crack down on the globes tech giants the European Commission unveils new rules for doing business online. And africa faces its 1st perception in 25 years experts say the economic consequences of the cover crisis will twined how much of the progress made on the cost of it will go to our correspondents in nairobi and. I mean for us all and lets do Business Tech giants will have to change the way they do business in europe all face fines of up to 10 percent of world wide turnover the a used rough rules are designed to rein in the power of the american. Companies and bring order to chaos Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and other tech bosses control troves of done to run platforms on which thousands of companies and millions of europeans rely on it have a listen in to what the Competition Commission of market best are going to have to say a short while ago about the Digital Services and Digital Markets act 2 complacent one. To make sure that me as uses its customers businesses have access to every wide choice of Safe Products and Services Online just as well as we do in the physical world and that all businesses operating in europe that can be a big one that can be small small ones that they can freely and fairly competes online just as they do offline because this is one world. Brussels sees the power of google amazon and facebook as a threat to competition and democracy is more of the rules for doing business in the blocks 27. 00 countries. The European Commission in advance callender announced its updated did to 2 groups a long awaited chocolate treat for many people some say this new legislation could change the internet as we know it and limits at least in some parts the enormous power of tech giants that influence so much of our daily lives we search with Google Online we buy Christmas Presents on amazon we share our latest holiday snaps with our friends on facebook or instagram or whatsapp that both belong to social media giant facebook a few tech giants dominate the internet and dictate its ruled that is so for example that googles Online Shopping Search Engine is still disadvantaged in rivals just spider regulatory crackdown 3 years ago our lets take a look at you tube by Google Companies like you tube collect data from users this information then feeds augur of thems that decides which ads and which content we see online it is not transparent how it works the ios Legal Framework for the internet is 20 years old when the World Wide Web was completely different it is time for an update but it could take years to be implemented as different e. U. Institutions have to agree on a common law and. In the meantime member of the European Parliament joins us thanks for being on the w. How will this change the internet is a going to tackle fake news and hate speech and things like that. Yes it will so we will have clear routes through this business specific fine its as if i started the year responsibilities of platforms especially when it comes to how cloud forms moderate contact so at the moment the routes are not clear so platforms did not have the certainty and. Fundamental rights of users are not guaranteed so we now have the chance to set a very clear route book with the route propose today by the commission and i think that they will have the potential to change the internet yes and this punishment of 10 percent or up to 10 percent of world wide bromine it sounds huge but will it be enough to to change the way these guys do business and make sure that hey general are they to protect troops and g. D. P. Are which answer to divorce a few years ago. We see that there is a fine speech in fake news isnt it continued to be spread. So i think it doesnt only sound huge but it is really huge so if you compared to the 5 purpose cent of the turnover so this 10 percent find his way more and we see that companies are of course out of hearing so theyre finding their roots in the g. D. P. Are so i think that this fine really is huge and can yet really change the behavior of big platforms what about competition what are going to do to competition do you think. The whole proposal is the. Well we need to go a step back so we have to propose its on the table the one is the d. S. A. The Digital Services sector which is. To deal with content on platforms roughly and we have the d. M. A. Which focuses on the competition site the mechanism youre seeing at the the market yes sir yes this is a market and what were seeing at the moment is that their competition files launched by the commission they take years and in the end the fines are not very huge compared to what the platforms parent why and they where a breach of competition last so we needed here to look and this too is presented in the d. M. A. With a black white and greatest approach the d. M. A. Retakes. Focuses on practices platforms which prove which have proven that they are harmful to the competition when are we going to see all of this because i know its only our framework its a proposal by the commission and other e. U. Institutions including the European Parliament well well have to find a common line before this all becomes reality. So if you take the press conference which was delayed today by an hour of the 2 hours this is a big indicator so this will taper off so we are not certain about one or 2 years that i hope that we wrote finish the legislation on to the usa and the d. N. A. Within this mandate so there are many challenges hat and so i copped if you would have made it the parliament sent a strong signal to the commission a few weeks ago when we adopted our reports from the us and p. M. A. But in the end there will be a tough fight at least thats what i predict between the parliament at the council so this will take years weeks i hope the rest of brussels is just as motivated as you to move open member of the European Parliament thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thank you very much back now to some of the other business stories making news google has had some services disruptive again today following a massive outage on monday and users were unable to access the email and google docs accounts or watch you tube videos google classroom was also unavailable preventing students from learning remotely. Bugs fighting is cutting back production following corona virus infections at a supplier some workers are being put on reduced hours at plants in both spoken palms fike thousands of workers could be affected by the cuts. And the United States has imposed economic sanctions on turkey a penalty would cut it off from the Export Import Bank of the u. S. And other International Lenders sanctions come nearly a year after turkey purchased a russian surface to air missile system. For the 1st time in a quarter century africa is likely to fall into recession the International Monetary fund expects the economies of the subsaharan countries to drop by 3 percent this year with Gross Domestic Product falling in almost all of them how to states the seychelles and the riches with a drop of almost 15 percent thats due to a drastic drop interests during the pandemic zimbabwe is looking at a drop of 12 percent the picture also isnt looking good for botswana or south africa the un conference on trade and development says the worlds poorest countries many of which are in africa will see another 32000000 people drop below the poverty line meaning theyll have to live on less than 2. 00 a day lets take you over to our nairobi correspondent joy doreen beera so would it be right to say the coronavirus hasnt hit africa as hard as the experts predicted whats hitting hard at the economic consequences of this crisis. Thats right ben and the economic consequences could be what africa is most concerned about because we have seen in several weeks there while the bank has released a report saying that africas economy has contracted close to the negatives and for this to actually for africa to recoup or get back to where it has been in terms of Economic Growth thats going to take maybe 5 years from now for that to happen but when he also comes to issues to do with health what we are seeing right now is that africa is experiencing a delayed surge because in the recent weeks we have seen Community Transmission of coverage 19 of a similar countries on the african continent you look at south africa you look at kenya and uganda they have increased cases in the bus in weeks but yes youre right economically speaking africa has been hardest hit because it relies heavily on the Tourism Sector as well as Natural Resources Mineral Resources which are heavy exported outside of the continent so wheres this going to put africa in terms of things like poverty Nutrition Education all things that are important for future growth and future livelihoods. The entire african continent is actually skin struggling right now and we can safely see that africa is going to have to borrow externally and domestically as well in order for each to mileage what its currently going through most of the sector is struggling and the ones that are heavily dependent on the exports markets have suffered the last. Budgetary cards and as well as increased public beaches what were looking at so speaking of sectors like Health Nutrition and all of that these theres going to have to be reliance on it dont have funding as well as making sure that it uses all mobilizes domestic resources in order to take care of the other sectors where fans have been pooled to look into you know. Emergencies for coverage 19 they will have to leave it there thank you very much for joining us joy doreen beera in nairobi and finally from a german bakery to the queen of englands postal Christmas Celebration you know based baker botts lead both of them maya is sending german holiday fruitcake known as the stalin to Queen Elizabeth of Windsor Castle is friends with one of the chefs there who takes the delicacy and passed a sample along to the queen herself she liked it so much that her windsor stuff is now serving the cake to the queen of members of the royal family with tea on christmas day. I was doing business with a. Good cause. To see endorsements have enough. To have a colleague and stuttgart was not without consequences. Moves much merrier in labor comes in with 4 goals against hoffenheim the rhinelander to shoot their way to the top of the table kick off. 60 minutes. Story so that people for the information. They want to express g. W. 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